Carnivora from the early Oligocene of the ‘ Phosphorites du Quercy’ in southwestern France Author Bonis, Louis de Palevoprim: laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes, Paléoprimatologie, Bâtiment B 35 TSA 51106, 6 rue Michel Brunet F- 86073 Poitiers cedex 9 (France) louis.debonis@univ-poitiers.fr Author Gardin, Axelle Palevoprim: laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes, Paléoprimatologie, Bâtiment B 35 TSA 51106, 6 rue Michel Brunet F- 86073 Poitiers cedex 9 (France) axelle.gardin@univ-poitiers.fr Author Blondel, Cécile Palevoprim: laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes, Paléoprimatologie, Bâtiment B 35 TSA 51106, 6 rue Michel Brunet F- 86073 Poitiers cedex 9 (France) cecile.blondel@univ-poitiers.fr text Geodiversitas 2019 2019-09-10 41 15 601 621 journal article 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a15 1e89d723-7f54-4d6b-85dd-6bcd573eca32 1638-9395 3694209 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9DD3CC29-3AEA-44B8-8E8F-6AD882DF5B1C TRIBE CEPHALOGALINI Bonis, 2013 REMARKS The Cephalogalini were present in Western Europe from the Oligocene to the early Miocene (MN3). Like the Hemicyoninae as a whole, they are considered to be pursuit predators with a canid-like way of life ( Hunt 1996: 493 ; 2009: 4 ). They are represented by hundreds of mandibles in the old Quercy collections but are less frequent in the new ones, except for a few places like Pech du Fraysse and Pech Desse ( Bonis 2013 ), two localities of the late Oligocene (MP 29). The type genus of the tribe, Cephalogale Jourdan, 1862, is founded on the species C. geoffroyi Jourdan, 1862 from an Oligocene locality of central France . The genus is common from the late Oligocene to the lower Miocene, with several species but is less common in the early Oligocene. Nevertheless, Cephalogale was doubtfully reported in Valbro ( Peigné et al. 2014 : fig. 19b) on the basis of a buccal piece of M1 and cited in Mas de Got ( Rémy et al. 1987 ) as Cephalogale minor . The tribe is definitively present in the latter locality.